The Community of Learning is an opportunity to learn together in a new way. It is about formation with others by bringing your experience and knowledge about the Christian faith and deeping it together. Each module is facilitated by people living a life of faith with successes and challenges, just like you.

The facilitator for this module is Bishop Logan.

A second offering of this module will be held Saturday, May 25 at St Philip in Cedar. Click here for more information.

As the diocese rolls out its Transforming Futures fundraising initiative, the bishop has appointed Walter Stewart to co-chair the campaign with him. The bishop and Walter will work as part of a campaign team to support the initiative at the local and diocesan levels. 

This article also appears in the May 2019 issue of the Diocesan Post.

Transforming Futures has officially launched! With Trinity Port Alberni’s official kick off on Sunday March 9 the campaign is active in the diocese. Bishop Logan attended their service and was encouraged to see their vitality and excitement as they take the next step in making their community a place where “everyone is welcome” is much more than a slogan. A grant from the Rick Hansen Foundation gave their project a $20,000 boost, and they are well on their way to achieving their financial goal. 

This article was printed in the April issue of the Diocesan Post.

It’s Tuesday night in Victoria, and a motorhome parks on Pandora Street, where the sidewalks are still icy from February snows. A volunteer jumps out to festoon a string of lights around the vehicle door. Almost immediately, people find their way in off the chilly, dark street and sit down on the bench seats. Volunteers greet the regulars by name and offer them a cup of hot chocolate or soup. This is Street Hope in action, an Anglican outreach project that feeds people’s spirits as well as their stomachs. 

Street Hope Victoria is a volunteer-driven Christian organization (a ministry of our diocese) that builds personal relationships with people who face multiple barriers and marginalization, and encourages them to seek holistic change. Street Hope operates out of a motor home which is parked in downtown Victoria on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Volunteers welcome people into the motor home and serve them homemade soup, sandwiches, hot chocolate, juice, cookies and fruit.

May 26-28, Vancouver School of Theology

Religiously-identified groups have made news as both perpetrators and targets of violence. This violence takes place within a cultural nexus of spiritual, economic, linguistic, political, sexual, and psychological dynamics. Religious and spiritual traditions have played a significant role in this nexus – by inspiring, discouraging, and responding to violence. 

The 42nd General Synod (governing convention) of the Anglican Church of Canada will gather under a theme drawn from the forty-third Chapter of Isaiah, “I have called you by name”, says the Lord, “you are mine”.  Please pray for the representatives from our diocese as they prepare and attend General Synod.

At the annual general meeting of the diocesan Anglican Church Women (ACW) held on April 2 at St Mark in Qualicum Beach, Bishop Logan commissioned Diane Hutchison to the dignity of diocesan lay canon. Diane is a member of St Mark and the outgoing president of ACW. Congratulations to Diane, a good and faithful servant.

“Doctrine of Discovery; Stolen lands, Strong Hearts” is a film about a devastating decision, made over 500 years ago, which continues to profoundly impact Indigenous and Settler people worldwide.

Registration opens May 1, 2019  

In its 2019 budget, released on April 11, 2019, the Ontario government announced it will update the Target Benefit Pension Plan framework to include multi-employer pension plans with participating employers outside of the collective bargaining environment. In support of this announcement, we made the attached press release on Canadian news networks.

This change impacts the General Synod Pension Plan in the way we have been requesting for the past decade, as we expect it will lead to permanent solvency funding relief for the plan.